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When Shaquille O'Neal was little -- 6 ft. 11 in. or so -- he sneaked through a back door of the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, Texas, to get the autograph of his favorite player, center Hakeem ("the Dream") Olajuwon of the Houston Rockets. It was the first time that the 16-year-old O'Neal had met Olajuwon, who was 26 at the time. "I was just a kid then," says Shaq, "with no money, no clothes, no car, no nothing." Olajuwon obliged, as he almost always does, and Shaq has kept the autograph to this...
...Tony Smith [Sept. 14] did a sculpture, Asteriskos, that was purchased for the San Antonio HemisFair '68 by Mr. and Mrs. Catto...
From the proud parents at the baptismal font to the sorrowing mourners at a young man's wake, the joys and griefs of a Latin American village are rousingly depicted at San Antonio's HemisFair. The weddings, the cockfights, and the bustle of the marketplace are all there, recorded with droll candor and naive precision. The wonder is that this bewitching pageant, the hit of the fair, is contained in a single building in Las Plazas del Mundo. In fact, "The Magic of a People" is a human comedy on the scale of Tinker Bell. Its 41 tableaux...
...minisummit with the presidents of five Central American republics: El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Before leaving Texas, he conferred with Bolivia's President Rene Barrientos Ortuno at the L.B.J. ranch and played host to ambassadors from 20 Latin countries at San Antonio's HemisFair, itself a symbol of inter-American solidarity. The Administration hoped that the little summit in San Salvador would serve the practical purpose of revitalizing the floundering Central American Common Market. The five isthmus Presidents will discuss ways of hurdling the barriers dividing them, and Johnson's presence, a tangible symbol...
...gala at HemisFair, it was clearly a success. Entertained in the extravagant Texas tradition at Governor John Connally's Picosa Ranch, the diplomats were later feted by the Johnsons at the U.S. Pavilion and treated to the traditional high jinks of an American Fourth of July celebration-in-cluding fireworks, a picnic atop HemisFair's 622-ft. tower and speechmaking. San Antonio's Independence Day orator was Lyndon Johnson himself, who departed from the standard rhetoric to liken the hopes of the founding fathers to those of the Latin nations today. The goals of those...